This Easter we're playing with mark-making and materials to turn drawing on its head! Come and get stuck in this spring with SEAson of Drawing activities for the whole family, inspired by the Van de ...

Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich for a rare opportunity to hear astrophysicists talk about the latest research in the fields of astronomy, physics, planetary geology and space exploration.

Mars is the nearest location where life could have evolved in our solar system beyond the Earth. We will begin our discussion on the prospects for life on Mars in the context of potential habitability ...

What would you see at the farthest edge of the Solar System as you finally left the Sun behind? We will probably never know for sure what is the furthest object in the Solar System but it is likely to ...

Can embracing the established canon interrupt history and maybe even change the future? Kehinde Wiley’s Ship of Fools is a striking oil painting hanging in the Queen's House. It depicts four people ...

This World Oceans Day, the National Maritime Museum is excited to reveal four brand new digital artworks. Arts organisation The Collective Makers led an open call for new works in response to the ...

Anywhere as rich with history as Greenwich probably also has a few skeletons in its closets - perhaps literally! From being the birthplace of Tudor royalty, including King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, ...

Meet colourful characters from Cutty Sark’s past, and hear astonishing stories about life at sea in the age of sail. You can find the characters onboard the ship for roaming encounters between 10.30am ...

The autumnal equinox occurs in September each year, and in the northern hemisphere the date marks the end of summer and beginning of autumn. The Earth is tilted on its axis. This means that the Sun ...

The Leonids are usually one of the more prolific annual meteor showers, with fast, bright meteors. The Leonid meteor shower is associated with the Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The radiant (the point where ...

The sea can be a queer place. People have long imagined oceans as places where the strange and the wondrous hide, and have taken to the waves to try out new ways of living. Join historian Seth LeJacq ...

In September 2019, for the first time in over 360 years, compasses at Greenwich pointed true north. But what does this mean - and haven't compasses always pointed 'north'? Erika Jones, curator of ...